Tuesdays with Flannel 7/29/05 - Birds & Bees.
Posted by Plaidman on April 4th, 2007
On this very special second Tuesday with Flannel, I am going to tell you the real story about the Birds and the Bees.
Three thousand years ago, when the dinosaurs invented basketball, there were just two teams: Landosaurs (different from Land O’Lakes) and Flyosaurs. The Spectatosaurs found this very boring, just seeing these two teams play basketball over and over. The two teams decided to split into two divisions each - the insects and lizards. The Flying divisions (the Birds and the Bees) completely dominated the Land divisions (Roaches and Rexes) in every game they played.
One of the Birds, by the name of Corsin, proposed the question, “I wonder who is actually the better team, the Birds or the Bees?” The question was answered with a series of 1000 different sporting events, including pickleball, track & field events, and, of course, basketball. After playing best out of five for all 1000 sports (this epic battle lasted 2969 years), the Birds and the Bees were tied 500 to 500. A 1001st sport, Extreme Sitting Around was used as a tiebreaker. The best of five series lasted for 13 years, and the Bees came out the victors.
One year later, in 1988, the Bees changed their name to the Hornets and moved to Charlotte. In 2002, they moved to New Orleans, and are known to the world today as the New Orleans Hornets.
Next week, I’ll tell you the wonderful story about how Tim grew legs.